Well, they've got rid of the dueling owners. In storyline terms, Vince owns both shows, but he just doesn't get involved with Smackdown. If I had to come up with a reason, I'd say that JBL contacted Vince and asked him to allow Kane on Smackdown, and Vince agreed to do so. He has no motive to do such a thing, but that's the best I can come up with.

Wow, Matt Hardy. I had forgotten this guy existed. Has he even been on the show since his loss to Booker in the KotR tourney a few weeks back?

Looks like another *yawn* exciting Smackdown. This show was really cooking for the past few months, but it's been just utter crap the last few weeks with all the injuries, Rey being buried, the spectre of another awful JBL title reign hanging over us and the focus on stiffs like Khali and Henry.

Originally posted by Big Bad>Looks like another *yawn* exciting Smackdown. This show was really cooking for the past few months, but it's been just utter crap the last few weeks with all the injuries, Rey being buried, the spectre of another awful JBL title reign hanging over us and the focus on stiffs like Khali and Henry.

Originally posted by Big BadLooks like another *yawn* exciting Smackdown. This show was really cooking for the past few months, but it's been just utter crap the last few weeks with all the injuries, Rey being buried, the spectre of another awful JBL title reign hanging over us and the focus on stiffs like Khali and Henry.

Geesh, why not just change the channel?

Another thing, how can you call JBL's title reign 'awful' when it was the best, creatively, of the past few years?

JBL's title reign was in no way the best creatively of the past few years. His character may be a roaring success, but the nine-month stretch of cheap finishes and bad matches, booked horribly repetitively (DQ/screwy finish in the first match, JBL gets an underhanded win in the gimmicky follow-up), was anything but. It wasn't JBL's fault, per se-he could only work with what he was given, after all-but that doesn't change the fact that a good six months of his time on top was truly shitty.

I can't imagine criticizing the last month of Smackdown. With Tivo I can watch Raw in about five to ten minutes. Smackdown there really is nothing (outside of the Great Kali) stuff that I find myself FFwding past.

Rey being booked as the honky tonk Man does suck. But really every week gives me another KOTR qualifying match. And the quality of the KOTR qualifyers this year has been amazing. I can't remember another year where really every qualifying KOTR match has felt like a PPV match. But it really feels like it this year as each qualifyer ,no matter who involved, is given plenty of time.

Khali's promos continue to be the unintentional comic highlight of the show. I think I actually understood a word this week ("Urnhrhgahgh" means "Undertaker").

Could it be possible that Rey is actually going to retain at Judgement Day? I mean, all of us internet fans "know" that JBL is supposed to win the title, but this feud has been so one-sided that Rey has to win. It would've been like if Vince had squashed Michaels at WM after dominating him for the prior four months; the only logical outcome, storywise, is a happy ending.